you're talking about 3d modelling with metallurgy and various other physics engines built in for the utmost accuracy and to avoid those nasty "engineering disasters", among other useful features.
Is this not exactly the same kind of thing game developers strive for?
It seems pretty obvious to me that a single engine could be used to power a cad tool on the one hand, and produce the "rag doll physics" on a game engine on the other.
that has nothing to do with hardware and everything to do with phoning home, forced upgrades, and, in the case of the 360, a legally grey remote-destruction of certain blocks of memory on other peoples' legally purchased hardware.
if you don't see the brave new industry you're blind!
p2p, mp3 players, internet usage, and pc sales have been soaring for quite some time.
This brave new industry has been expanding into other areas as well, such as centralized media servers.
This "brave new industry" is called the convergence, which was promised in the mid 90's, until the incumbent firms realized it would be the end of piece-meal sales. This, of course, is why entirely new players are forcing their hands.
Of course, convergence also means greater interactivity between devices, and in fact depends on the capacity to copy freely.
So far as gaming is concerned, the smart developers have shifted to subscription based online games. You can't pirate webhosting, and if you continue adding value to the game with new content "free server" providers won't be able to keep up (see wowscape vs official wow servers for a good example)
Others have focused solely on consoles! people feel more comfortable gaming on them anyway because they know they'll get better stability, fewer cheaters, and won't be forced on an upgrade treadmill with every new title, and it shows as consoles have been gaining ground on pc games.
You can buy an osx capable first gen intel macbook for 500 bucks off ebay.
You don't have to join anything. Their dev tools are free and their documentation is open on their website and available through onboard files.
You don't even have to use apple's SDK either, you can just use the interface builder and link it to a pure posix backend.
I think you're a consultant alright, and i think your primary employer is microsoft. That's the only way i can conceivably think anyone would put out that much blatant FUD.
You want to know what it cost my friend to start developing small finished apps on osx? 30 bucks for a book to learn objective c, and that's it!
They aren't people, despite how they're treated tax-wise in the US
they aren't treated like people tax-wise, they're treated like foreigners.. e.g. they never have to pay them.
they are, of course, treated like people when (and ONLY when) it benefits them, such as in court cases. Even then, the people they're treated like were supposedly deposed in most of the western world by the early 20th century.
I believe you've read the proper theory: the divine right of coporations?
To quote Gypsy in response to "johnny long torso":
"You are evil! EEEVILLL! AAAAAHHH!".
Seriously, there's nothing "multi-purpose" about it.
It is a system designed solely for blanket stasi/gstapo style surveillance of wide swaths of people. Try to change your routine for any purpose (99.99% are legitimate), and you'll end up with the secret police beating you around.
Shame on anyone for producing this software, because there is no mistaking its intent.
If the book is general how-not-to-get-fired advice, then I could see it still being relevant. However, if that's the case, then shame on the nativist scare mongering title. If the job is going then it's either no longer a needed job or it's going *somewhere*. It's unhealthy to demonize developing economies like that.
"developing economies" have no labor standards and often human rights issues.
They do to the labor markets what dumpers and predatory pricers do to commodity markets. There's a reason those latter two practices are illegal in pretty much any nation with a semblance of a government.
it's called: "Across the world" the cost of living is much lower, the standard of living is much lower, the labor standards are much lower, the safety standards are much lower.
What happens "Across the world" is what westerners like to call human rights violations, whether it be physical oppression or labor rights issues.
That's the labor equivalent of predatory pricing or dumping, which are both illegal worldwide.
I live in a "Right To Work" state, and we have one of the lowest per-capita incomes in the nation, while the housing costs have risen to parity with the coastal cities. That trend is universal.
a lot of the quest lines just kind of die. You level up to 58 and then head to Outland. Or you level up to around 60 and find that all of the quest lines disappear into prior "end-game" instances that nobody is running anymore.
Ironically, you're answering someone else's complaint about "unchanging world environment". The truth is blizzard does change it with the expacks, which demark "campaigns" as in a war.
you had the battles at the dark portal before bc, which were won, and azeroth's forces pushed into outland.
Those quest lines ended because that stage in the conflict was over. This is where blizzard screwed up though. They didn't go back and morph the previous world's quest lines to fit in with their recent storyline revisions.
This doesn't mean they had to remove the old-world raids. They could be ongoing areas of resistance which have to be periodically quashed like certain areas of the middle east.
The main quest lines though need to lead toward the dark portal and integrate with outland, and eventually northrend.
This would obviously be much better seamlessly integrating the expansions into the game, and reselling it as one unit under a new price, but this kind of thing is not necessary to achieve what i'm laying out.
Hilariously, it just stuck it's head in while it's body and legs remained flat on the floor, completely exposed.
Possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
It then meandered to a polling station, and voted republican.
This is for everyone but I'm replying to you. go to iTunes and look for a series of podcasts called 'Ted Talks'. There is one concerning magpies and how they have adapted to the human environment better than we have adapted to the world. They talk in particular that magpies can recognise individuals and attack them in revenge, the only way to avoid it is to wear a disguise. Even after a few years they can still pick you out if it is the same magpies.
load rifle, adjust scope, train on nest, blam blam.
And you DO realize that not ALL actors are BILLIONAIRES right?
but the point remains that the major actors are paid way too much money, and even a 30% pay cut for them could pay the salaries of the extras and technical staff twice over.
It is incredibly unlikely that your graphics chip is falling apart. It's soldered to the logic board.
since 3 weeks ago, my macbook has continuously thought there was a second monitor (the tv adapter) attached to the mini-dvi.
I powered it down, removed the battery, and let it sit for several days waiting for any and all latent electricity to discharge, restarted it, it's still that way.
The thing sits behind a surge protector and an ac adapater with a fuse which would blow in the event of a power surge.. Actually plugging in the device results in diagonal black bars separated by blue static. A fine stand-alone video player it's making eh? this is a product defect.
Of course, by standards previously set by apple (an average 6 year lifespan), this is the equivalent of "1 day after warranty", and now i'm shafted. I can't use the piece of equipment for one of it's primary uses.
You are consistently missing the point. I'll try to make this as simple as possible.
It used to be: possession of pornography involving children was illegal.
It is now: possession of anything which is claimed to be pornography involving children is illegal.
See the difference? Now insert virtual pornography into the new definition. Suddenly it's illegal. It's the same trick, i.e. making material not involving actual children illegal, with a new twist. Suddenly the burden is on the possessor/distributor to correctly describe material as not involving children, rather than on the government to prove that the material involves real children.
I beg to differ.
The government would be hard pressed to prove "animation" as described elsewhere in this response column depicted real children.
You're not getting the bigger picture here.
What happened after the 2002 ruling killing off the "lolicon ban" clause, was that anyone accused of possessing digital kiddie porn was claiming it was CGI. They were winning those cases.
The ruling had tipped the balance in the opposite extreme, allowing the exploitation and abuse of real children to achieve legal profitability online through a technicality.
I agree this skirts a razor's edge, but every example of convictions on the wikipedia entry indicate there was real kiddie porn mixed in with the artistic works.
The indicator in this recent decision is clear: if it's patently obvious the porn actually involved a real kid, you get your conviction. BUTif you as the fed go "big brother" and start arresting anyone with obviously "virtual" material (this covers everything from ambiguously aged anime characters like washyuu in suggestive poses, to full on lolicon posted to 4chan), you will be spanked by the USSC.
Between their replacement of true color displays with crappy TN models which push their own calibration tools off the charts, their terrible all around macbook quality (mine's 1.5 years old and literally falling to pieces, including the graphics unit), and now these exploding batteries (again!, even dUll didn't pull the same mistake twice!), I say the days of apple as a quality brand are over.
Anyone have suggestions on where to buy quality hardware i can load osx86 on?
A ruling on the pandering aspect of the protect act from may of this year
Quote:
[T]he dissent accuses us of silently overruling our prior decisions in Ferber and Free Speech Coalition. According to the dissent, Congress has made an end-run around the First Amendmentâ(TM)s protection of virtual child pornography by prohibiting proposals to transact in such images rather than prohibiting the images themselves. But an offer to provide or request to receive virtual child pornography is not prohibited by the statute. A crime is committed only when the speaker believes or intends the listener to believe that the subject of the proposed transaction depicts real children. It is simply not true that this means âoea protected category of expression [will] inevitably be suppressed.â Simulated child pornography will be as available as ever, so long as it is offered and sought as such, and not as real child pornography.
The Department of Justice appealed the Eleventh Circuit's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case review docket is listed as 06-0694 and was scheduled for October 30, 2007 on the 2007-2008 schedule.[3] The Supreme Court heard arguments on the case and overturned the Eleventh Circuit's ruling 7-2 with Justices Souter and Ginsberg dissenting. The court stressed that virtual child pornography remained under the protection of the First Amendment, except when it was offered or solicited under the mistaken impression that actual children were depicted.[72]
In May 2008, the Supreme Court, while ruling on the PROTECT ACT, ruled that the act cannot be used to punish persons who view or make virtual child porn, provided it is not promoted as actual child porn
There seemed to be some confusion on this, so i dug up on excerpt from the 2008 opinion. The mention is tangential, but significant:
[T]he dissent accuses us of silently overruling our prior decisions in Ferber and Free Speech Coalition. According to the dissent, Congress has made an end-run around the First Amendmentâ(TM)s protection of virtual child pornography by prohibiting proposals to transact in such images rather than prohibiting the images themselves. But an offer to provide or request to receive virtual child pornography is not prohibited by the statute. A crime is committed only when the speaker believes or intends the listener to believe that the subject of the proposed transaction depicts real children. It is simply not true that this means âoea protected category of expression [will] inevitably be suppressed.â Simulated child pornography will be as available as ever, so long as it is offered and sought as such, and not as real child pornography.
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you're talking about 3d modelling with metallurgy and various other physics engines built in for the utmost accuracy and to avoid those nasty "engineering disasters", among other useful features.
Is this not exactly the same kind of thing game developers strive for?
It seems pretty obvious to me that a single engine could be used to power a cad tool on the one hand, and produce the "rag doll physics" on a game engine on the other.
Game's are hardly niche.
that has nothing to do with hardware and everything to do with phoning home, forced upgrades, and, in the case of the 360, a legally grey remote-destruction of certain blocks of memory on other peoples' legally purchased hardware.
The average age of a torrent on pirate bay is 6 months right now, with the most extreme age i've ever seen being 1.3 years.
Those 6 month old torrents still go strong.
so what were you saying again?
if you don't see the brave new industry you're blind!
p2p, mp3 players, internet usage, and pc sales have been soaring for quite some time.
This brave new industry has been expanding into other areas as well, such as centralized media servers.
This "brave new industry" is called the convergence, which was promised in the mid 90's, until the incumbent firms realized it would be the end of piece-meal sales. This, of course, is why entirely new players are forcing their hands.
Of course, convergence also means greater interactivity between devices, and in fact depends on the capacity to copy freely.
So far as gaming is concerned, the smart developers have shifted to subscription based online games. You can't pirate webhosting, and if you continue adding value to the game with new content "free server" providers won't be able to keep up (see wowscape vs official wow servers for a good example)
Others have focused solely on consoles! people feel more comfortable gaming on them anyway because they know they'll get better stability, fewer cheaters, and won't be forced on an upgrade treadmill with every new title, and it shows as consoles have been gaining ground on pc games.
That's bullhockey.
You can buy an osx capable first gen intel macbook for 500 bucks off ebay.
You don't have to join anything. Their dev tools are free and their documentation is open on their website and available through onboard files.
You don't even have to use apple's SDK either, you can just use the interface builder and link it to a pure posix backend.
I think you're a consultant alright, and i think your primary employer is microsoft. That's the only way i can conceivably think anyone would put out that much blatant FUD.
You want to know what it cost my friend to start developing small finished apps on osx? 30 bucks for a book to learn objective c, and that's it!
how does a 404 error pertain at all to this conversation?
Another convenient package to be hacked.
Their ten geeks against our 300,000,000 geeks. Who do you think will win?
how many geeks does it take to muster a first-world class military?
They aren't people, despite how they're treated tax-wise in the US
they aren't treated like people tax-wise, they're treated like foreigners.. e.g. they never have to pay them.
they are, of course, treated like people when (and ONLY when) it benefits them, such as in court cases. Even then, the people they're treated like were supposedly deposed in most of the western world by the early 20th century.
I believe you've read the proper theory: the divine right of coporations?
To quote Gypsy in response to "johnny long torso":
"You are evil! EEEVILLL! AAAAAHHH!".
Seriously, there's nothing "multi-purpose" about it.
It is a system designed solely for blanket stasi/gstapo style surveillance of wide swaths of people. Try to change your routine for any purpose (99.99% are legitimate), and you'll end up with the secret police beating you around.
Shame on anyone for producing this software, because there is no mistaking its intent.
If the book is general how-not-to-get-fired advice, then I could see it still being relevant. However, if that's the case, then shame on the nativist scare mongering title. If the job is going then it's either no longer a needed job or it's going *somewhere*. It's unhealthy to demonize developing economies like that.
"developing economies" have no labor standards and often human rights issues.
They do to the labor markets what dumpers and predatory pricers do to commodity markets. There's a reason those latter two practices are illegal in pretty much any nation with a semblance of a government.
it's called: "Across the world" the cost of living is much lower, the standard of living is much lower, the labor standards are much lower, the safety standards are much lower.
What happens "Across the world" is what westerners like to call human rights violations, whether it be physical oppression or labor rights issues.
That's the labor equivalent of predatory pricing or dumping, which are both illegal worldwide.
"Right To Work" = Right to be fired on a whim.
I live in a "Right To Work" state, and we have one of the lowest per-capita incomes in the nation, while the housing costs have risen to parity with the coastal cities. That trend is universal.
a lot of the quest lines just kind of die. You level up to 58 and then head to Outland. Or you level up to around 60 and find that all of the quest lines disappear into prior "end-game" instances that nobody is running anymore.
Ironically, you're answering someone else's complaint about "unchanging world environment". The truth is blizzard does change it with the expacks, which demark "campaigns" as in a war.
you had the battles at the dark portal before bc, which were won, and azeroth's forces pushed into outland.
Those quest lines ended because that stage in the conflict was over. This is where blizzard screwed up though. They didn't go back and morph the previous world's quest lines to fit in with their recent storyline revisions.
This doesn't mean they had to remove the old-world raids. They could be ongoing areas of resistance which have to be periodically quashed like certain areas of the middle east.
The main quest lines though need to lead toward the dark portal and integrate with outland, and eventually northrend.
This would obviously be much better seamlessly integrating the expansions into the game, and reselling it as one unit under a new price, but this kind of thing is not necessary to achieve what i'm laying out.
There's an option to turn it off.
The rest is just fear mongering.
"you can turn it off now, but they may code in another one in a couple months, which you can once again turn off!, OH THE HORROR!"
Hilariously, it just stuck it's head in while it's body and legs remained flat on the floor, completely exposed.
Possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
It then meandered to a polling station, and voted republican.
This is for everyone but I'm replying to you. go to iTunes and look for a series of podcasts called 'Ted Talks'. There is one concerning magpies and how they have adapted to the human environment better than we have adapted to the world. They talk in particular that magpies can recognise individuals and attack them in revenge, the only way to avoid it is to wear a disguise. Even after a few years they can still pick you out if it is the same magpies.
load rifle, adjust scope, train on nest, blam blam.
possibly.
Still, no matter how bad electronics go, they should not explode.
This trend at apple is a real disappointment
And you DO realize that not ALL actors are BILLIONAIRES right?
but the point remains that the major actors are paid way too much money, and even a 30% pay cut for them could pay the salaries of the extras and technical staff twice over.
not when you're 5 figures in the hole and about to leave school into the most horrid job market since wed, oct 30th, 1929
It is incredibly unlikely that your graphics chip is falling apart. It's soldered to the logic board.
since 3 weeks ago, my macbook has continuously thought there was a second monitor (the tv adapter) attached to the mini-dvi.
I powered it down, removed the battery, and let it sit for several days waiting for any and all latent electricity to discharge, restarted it, it's still that way.
The thing sits behind a surge protector and an ac adapater with a fuse which would blow in the event of a power surge..
Actually plugging in the device results in diagonal black bars separated by blue static. A fine stand-alone video player it's making eh?
this is a product defect.
Of course, by standards previously set by apple (an average 6 year lifespan), this is the equivalent of "1 day after warranty", and now i'm shafted. I can't use the piece of equipment for one of it's primary uses.
You're aware that Apple's "Pro" line is the one that's rated for unusually high quality, right? Not the consumer grade iMac or MacBooks...
I'm also aware my friend is now on his third macbook pro in 2 years, and he has to ice-pack it all the time because it overheats.
He's been a user since system 6, and we're both unimpressed.
You are consistently missing the point. I'll try to make this as simple as possible.
It used to be: possession of pornography involving children was illegal.
It is now: possession of anything which is claimed to be pornography involving children is illegal.
See the difference? Now insert virtual pornography into the new definition. Suddenly it's illegal. It's the same trick, i.e. making material not involving actual children illegal, with a new twist. Suddenly the burden is on the possessor/distributor to correctly describe material as not involving children, rather than on the government to prove that the material involves real children.
I beg to differ.
The government would be hard pressed to prove "animation" as described elsewhere in this response column depicted real children.
You're not getting the bigger picture here.
What happened after the 2002 ruling killing off the "lolicon ban" clause, was that anyone accused of possessing digital kiddie porn was claiming it was CGI. They were winning those cases.
The ruling had tipped the balance in the opposite extreme, allowing the exploitation and abuse of real children to achieve legal profitability online through a technicality.
I agree this skirts a razor's edge, but every example of convictions on the wikipedia entry indicate there was real kiddie porn mixed in with the artistic works.
The indicator in this recent decision is clear:
if it's patently obvious the porn actually involved a real kid, you get your conviction.
BUTif you as the fed go "big brother" and start arresting anyone with obviously "virtual" material (this covers everything from ambiguously aged anime characters like washyuu in suggestive poses, to full on lolicon posted to 4chan), you will be spanked by the USSC.
Between their replacement of true color displays with crappy TN models which push their own calibration tools off the charts, their terrible all around macbook quality (mine's 1.5 years old and literally falling to pieces, including the graphics unit), and now these exploding batteries (again!, even dUll didn't pull the same mistake twice!), I say the days of apple as a quality brand are over.
Anyone have suggestions on where to buy quality hardware i can load osx86 on?
A ruling on the pandering aspect of the protect act from may of this year
Quote:
From the wikipedia entry on lolicon
The Department of Justice appealed the Eleventh Circuit's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case review docket is listed as 06-0694 and was scheduled for October 30, 2007 on the 2007-2008 schedule.[3] The Supreme Court heard arguments on the case and overturned the Eleventh Circuit's ruling 7-2 with Justices Souter and Ginsberg dissenting. The court stressed that virtual child pornography remained under the protection of the First Amendment, except when it was offered or solicited under the mistaken impression that actual children were depicted.[72]
In May 2008, the Supreme Court, while ruling on the PROTECT ACT, ruled that the act cannot be used to punish persons who view or make virtual child porn, provided it is not promoted as actual child porn
There seemed to be some confusion on this, so i dug up on excerpt from the 2008 opinion. The mention is tangential, but significant:
[T]he dissent accuses us of silently overruling our prior decisions in Ferber and Free Speech Coalition. According to the dissent, Congress has made an end-run around the First Amendmentâ(TM)s protection of virtual child pornography by prohibiting proposals to transact in such images rather than prohibiting the images themselves. But an offer to provide or request to receive virtual child pornography is not prohibited by the statute. A crime is committed only when the speaker believes or intends the listener to believe that the subject of the proposed transaction depicts real children. It is simply not true that this means âoea protected category of expression [will] inevitably be suppressed.â Simulated child pornography will be as available as ever, so long as it is offered and sought as such, and not as real child pornography.